Archive for category: Life

Everyone is caught up in the “Love Yourself” movement that they are forgetting to love others. Learning to love all that you are and all that you are created to be is a lifetime of facing fears, taking risks, growing, and becoming and unbecoming all that you once thought...

“Transparency wins hearts.” I read this phrase a couple of months ago in a book by Brene Brown called Daring Greatly. This phrase has played over and over in my mind since authenticity and vulnerability are vital components to living a transparent life, a journey I decided to step...

When I started my blog in 2013, this was my original post for why I called it a romanced life. I am bit of a word nerd, and when researching “romance” I found it has no Latin or Greek root. Romance originated during the Middle Ages, and at first...

Every country celebrates this holiday differently if at all. In the States, it has blossomed into the holiday associated with hearts, flowers, and expectations of love. Spending the last 25 years of this holiday in my motherland, I thought it would be cool to experience it somewhere different. The...

I am not a huge birthday celebrator, but since I will probably only celebrate my birthday in Bali once, I figured I would do something memorable. I headed back to Ubud this morning on the back of a motorbike. I wanted to see the Water Palace on the way,...

2013 was the hardest year of my life. What wisdom cannot teach, rock bottom can. I realized that sometimes change is forced when I don’t expect it, and it’s not easy. But breakdowns can lead to breakthroughs when I open myself up enough to feel and deal instead of...